Grid Services

The ability to integrate a new technology into a variety of legacy environments is a core requirement of any strategic technology. GridServer offers support for multiple languages and different integration strategies to meet this goal.

With GridServer, Grid clients (applications that use the Grid) can interoperate with any Service hosted on the Grid—regardless of the language or system that the components are running. For example, an application can make Grid Service calls that are implemented in any language and system, including the following systems:

Grid Service Implementations
Java Classes
.NET Classes
C++ Classes
C Functions in a DLL/SO
Excel (extension package)
Any executable or script
R functions

Any Service can be accessed by Grid client applications in a number of ways, including the following ways:

Grid Client Interfaces
Java/J2EE
.NET API (VB.NET, C#)
COM Object
C++/C
Batch Clients
R functions

GridServer enables a truly Service-oriented approach to Grid computing. The Grid client creates a Service instance and calls operations (methods) on the Service. These calls are virtualized and invoked on multiple Grid nodes. This virtualization provides limitless scalability for hosting these Services and offers a simple programming model for invoking these Services.

Services are described in more detail in GridServer Services.